French Andre Francois Limoges Art Deco Lidded Bowl

Published by Nevan O Shaughnessy on January 6, 2021January 6, 2021

PRESENTING a LOVELY French Andre Francois Limoges Art Deco Lidded Bowl in SUPERB condition.

This is a lidded bowl or tureen made in Limoges France circa 1930 in the CLASSIC Art Deco Style.

It consists of white porcelain with geometric florets in purple and yellow with gold accents, with gold edging.

Fully and properly marked on the base: “Limoges A.F. France …. Porcelaines Limoges Francois (inside a double circle)’. THe inside of the lid is marked with the Model Number ‘2805’.

The maker is Andres Francois.

Made in La Seynie, France (40km south of Limoges) by the artisans and craftsmen at Andre Francois (A.F.) Limoges, c 1922-1934,

LIMOGES PORCELAIN: Limoges porcelain designates hard-paste porcelain produced by factories near the city of Limoges, France beginning in the late 18th century, but does not refer to a particular manufacturer.Limoges had strong antecedents in the production of decorative objects. The city was the most famous European centre of vitreous enamel production in the 12th century, and Limoges enamel was known as Opus de Limogia or Labor Limogiae.
Limoges had also been the site of a minor industry producing plain faience earthenware since the 1730s. The manufacturing of hard-paste porcelain at Limoges was established by Turgot in 1771 following the discovery of local supplies of kaolin and a material similar to petuntse in the economically distressed area at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, near Limoges. The materials, which were quarried beginning in 1768, were used to produce hard-paste porcelain similar to Chinese porcelain. A manufactory at Limoges was placed under the patronage of the comte d’Artois, brother of Louis XVI, and was later purchased by the King in 1784, apparently with the idea of producing hard-paste bodies for decoration at Sèvres, although this never happened. After the French Revolution a number of private factories were established at Limoges, including Bernardaud and Haviland & Co.
‘Limoges’ is now commonly used to describe any French porcelain made in the Limoges Region.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limoges_porcelain